(The City Council is coming under a lot of pressure from businesses to remove the Bus Gate, If you wish to show your support for the Bus Gate email your local councillors and the city manager. You can find out who your local councillors are HERE)

From RTE:

A group of Dublin city centre businesses are taking a legal challenge against the council's bus corridor at College Green.

13 businesses including Brown Thomas, Weirs, Louis Copeland as well as shopping centre and car park owners, will go to the High Court on Monday.

A GROUNDBREAKING new study on the health impacts of central London’s recent initiatives to reduce traffic pollution could put pressure on other major cities to follow suit and cut emissions.

That’s according to asthma expert Prof Tak Lee, who told a conference in Dublin at the weekend about a unique study looking at how bringing down traffic-related emissions affects respiratory health in children.

Prof Lee, from King’s College London, said air pollution was a major environmental factor relating to health and that particulate matter with a diameter of under 10 microns, which is associated with traffic emissions, was of notable concern.

Extract from renewed Programme for Government approved at Green Party conference

We’ve all had what we would term as nasty falls from our bikes when cycling. But one female cyclist has miraculously survived from a truly horrendous one. The cyclist plummeted 100ft down a cliff and amazingly escaped with a broken collar bone and cuts and bruises after a mystery climber stopped to give her first aid.

The 50-year-old, who has not been named, was cycling with members of her family when she fell off her bike at Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, rolled down a grassy bank and went over the edge of a cliff, landing 300ft from the road.

04 October 2009 By Dick O’Brien

The Dublin City Council bike rental scheme has received so many applications in its first two weeks that it has run out of subscriber cards.

The council had originally targeted 5,000 subscribers in the first year of the Dublin Bikes scheme, but was overwhelmed with 11,000 applications in the first fortnight of operation, according to a council spokesman. He confirmed that the scheme, which is administered by advertising company JC Decaux for the local authority, had temporarily run out of cards. New cards for the scheme are expected to arrive within the next week.

Here's an interesting set of articles on the fear of cycling by Dave Horton posted on Copenhagenize.com.

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/09/fear-of-cycling-01-essay-in-five-pa...

A female cyclist is described as critical but stable after a road accident in Dublin last night.

 By Dr Mike McKillen - Friday September 18 2009

The launch of the JC Decaux Dublin bike scheme (www.dublinbikes.ie) has brought a welcome focus on cycling in our city.

Commuting cyclists know that any increase in the number of bikes plying our streets will bring about the 'critical mass' effect that makes cyclists more visible to drivers and this, in turn, compels drivers to take more care in interacting with riders.

However the scheme has raised the question from many commentators and drivers: is it safe to cycle in Dublin?